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Today, in response to House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan’s proposed 2012 budget, John Larson (D, Connecticut) said:  Ryan’s goal (or the Republican’s perfect budget, depending on the source) is one that creates is “government so small you can drown it in a bathtub.”  My first thought was “Like that’s a bad thing??” Continue reading

There’s a survey on Facebook where you have to note every state that you’ve been in (feet on the ground–flyover and drive-throughs don’t count).  A friend of mine, the high-speed rail proponent, has been feet on the ground in three states–New York, Massachusetts, and Florida.  I’m betting he wasn’t even in upstate New York either,… Continue reading

Lindsey Graham is a pansy-ass.  Anytime a Senator comes out and says “Freedom of speech is a good idea but…” and then tries to compare WWII era secrecy to modern day speech, he is making an erroneous and dangerous analogy.  Wanting to curtail free speech because it might cause rioting halfway around the world is… Continue reading

So, in the way my mind works first thing in the morning while watching the news….  would you prefer a hole on a plane or snakes on a plane??  I’m thinking the former but have to include a clip from the latter (language warning). Continue reading

Okay, I think I reached the final straw on this.  Does every cause have to be color-coded for easy reference?  This Friday it’s blue for autism awareness–not a ribbon this time, just the color.  Breast cancer awareness is a pink ribbon.  Red for AIDS awareness.  Purple (or rainbow, depending on who it is) is for… Continue reading

One of my vices (in addition to knives and other weapons) is books.  It’s a vice that both Himself and I share, which is why we’ve had to turn an entire room into a library.  I’ve been on subsistence-reading, re-reading stuff I had but then we went to the bookstore last night.  As much as… Continue reading

  Gee, I wish I got paid the big bucks that some of these morons do.  Mark Sanner, a marketing guy for non-profits, did an analysis as to the waning popularity of ‘Earth Hour’ and blamed it on it ‘losing its novelty’ (via Big Government–which, by the way, is apparently blocked by the state of… Continue reading

Okay it’s a couple of months late, but January 20 was astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s 81st birthday.  The second man to walk on the moon and the first to have spacewalked.  Read more about him here. Continue reading

Sorry I haven’t blogged, but had a very full weekend. On Saturday, I went with Himself, Og, and Parner to the Funshow/Gunshow. We had bacon (or BaKhaaannn) and biscuits so fluffy they would have floated off the table if not for the sausage gravy holding them down. When Og took his first bite of bacon,… Continue reading

Pole dancing for Jesus.  Except they call it ‘Pole Fitness for Jesus’.  Ecclesiastes 3:4 says that there is a ‘time to dance’ (I remember that from Footloose) after all.  The instructors say it’s about ‘connecting to God’.  And if God is represented by a phallic symbol, I dunno, something like a pole, I’m thinking they’re… Continue reading